That reminds me of the one about how President Carter brought a pooper-scooper to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks...

I have news for you; healthy... virtual... fish... doesnt have a smell.

Congratulations; I see that you took advantage of at least one opportunity to spice up your post with a comma...

The fact that I'm having to explain something [so obvious] simply proves my point: there's a real disconnect with a lot of techie-types; they're utterly unable (even unwilling) to correlate their lifestyles with their utter inability to get laid...

My exact words were "take care of themselves" and yes, that's what I meant... but the issue is why:

When people (regardless of gender) respect themselves enough to take responsibility for their decisions (particularly where those decisions pertain to health, diet, hygiene, exercise, etc), it's impressive, and those people aren't just likely to be more physically attractive (i.e. "superficially"), they're likely to be more attractive period (i.e. psychologically, emotionally, hell biologically).

I could certainly see the Russian engineers' constraints (obsolete process tech, a budget likely 250x smaller than Itanium's, etc) motivating them to come up with a more efficient design...

If we're strictly talking "cars," that technically rules out crossovers and even small SUV's such as a RAV4, hence the use of the [far-less arbitrary] phrase "passenger vehicles",,, ;)

The problem isn't a shortage of gamer girls but rather a shortage of those willing to actually take care of themselves (of course, the opposite certainly holds true, as well: a shortage of healthy, attractive females who are into cerebral activities such as gaming, and aren't dumb, superficial cunts).

Whoever came up with that choice phrase ought to stick to using words and phrases that they actually know the meaning of...

I seem to recall the speed limit out in west Texas being 85mph...

Their average weight might be close to 3000lbs, though I suspect that would require larger numbers of deathtrap-mobiles (Fiat 500's, etc) than I'm seeing.

Considering that even a Civic weighs close to 3,000 (and considering how many 4,000lb German sedans, 5,000lbs pickups and 6,000lb SUV'S I see on the roads), the median weight must surely be a lot greater...

THIS... is why I'm eagerly awaiting the [Last] Year of Windows on the Desktop. :)

Were the early Elbrus chips reversed-engineered from designs used in American pinball machines or something?

Sorry if I upset yourworldview, here... but we've got fascism masquerading as both capitalism *and* socialism (albeit being a bit more discreet about it on the left, implying that conservatives are easier to fool than liberals... but anyone who's compared NPR to Fox "News" knows that). Perhaps you've gotten actual Libertarianism confused with the Koch Bro's astroturfed synthetic version? *Nothing* is as idealogically anti-Fascist as true Libertarianism.

He's clearly feeling cranky; perhaps he had planned an illicit rendezvous in a portapotty with a male staffer and when he got to the park, the ingrate was nowhere to be seen... ;)